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Paddy Johnson will be moderating a panel at Volta on digital collecting called “Art in the Cloud” Saturday March 7, 2015 at 4:30 p.m. Panelists include art advisor and collector Stefan Simchowitz, collector David Diamond, independent art advisor, curator and collector Myriam Vanneschi and Transfer gallery founder Kelani Nichole. This conversation comes with its own trailer. [Artnet]

Here’s a question: What is Columbia University’s new sexual assault prevention requirement supposed to teach a student? From Jillian Steinhauer: “The language the school uses to describe it is a laughable hybrid of corporate-sounding mumbo-jumbo and touchy-feely vagueness; in the video, Columbia’s president says, ‘This is an opportunity to create art about the connection between sexual respect and membership in the Columbia University community,’ while others explain, ‘We invite you to express your thoughts and feelings about sexual respect — concepts like consent, relationships, boundaries.’” [Hyperallergic]

You’re probably a fan of David Shrigley and you don’t even know it. Acting in the fields of graphic art, studio art, books, music and animation, Shrigley has earned renown for making high-brow works on paper with a disturbing, punkish bite since the early 1990s. Though trained formally at the Glasgow School of Art, his drawings maintain an unskilled look, belied only by their being witty as hell. In late September, I met with Shrigley to talk about his career and the compilation What The Hell Are You Doing?: The Essential David Shrigley, which was published earlier this year and is now available in the US.